Medically Tested Anti Aging Products

These days, anti aging products are all the rage. With so many companies making blatantly misleading or untrue statements about their products, it's hard to know who to trust. Unfortunately, if you're looking for medically tested anti aging products, you won't get much help from the government. What many people don't know is that herbal products are very much under regulated in the U.S. Because of a "loophole", if an anti aging product is marketed as a dietary supplement instead of a medicine, it is not subject to FDA review. Thus millions of Americans are taking anti aging products that have not been medically tested.

A commercial laboratory recently reported that 11% of the herbal products that it tested were contaminated in some way.  If you want to find which anti aging products have been medically tested, you are on your own. Fortunately, there are some avenues you can take advantage of to find which products are safe to use.

Once you've identified which anti aging products you're interested in, search the Internet - especially the UK sites. The United Kingdom is much more aggressive about testing and much more open about revealing the results of test on all kinds of health products, including anti aging products. They are much more liberal and progressive about posting test results of not only licensed medicines, but unlicensed medicines and herbal products as well.

Following that, you should search our very own FDA sites. Each of the products that have been recently approved can be found on their website; and this is generally an ok but not great place to start looking for medically tested anti aging products.

Ordinarily, your doctor would be the natural place to get advice from if you are thinking of taking anti aging products. Unfortunately, however, most U.S. doctors do not keep up with the latest anti aging herbs and products and generally have no idea which ones have been medically tested or not. You need to look for a doctor who specializes in anti aging procedures. Fortunately, its getting easier to locate doctors like this in the hard copy yellow pages or online yellow pages.

You can't just accept any doctor, however. You want to ensure that he actually practices what he preaches and that he diligently follows the periodicals and goings on in the anti aging field. Don't be afraid to ask him what anti aging products he personally uses. Ask him how he knows if anti aging products have been medically tested. If he is using these products on his own body, that should give you a higher level of confidence in him. Other questions you'll want to know the answers to is - how big his practice is, where he trained, how he keeps up to date on advances in the field, and any other questions that you personally need answered to give you the confidence that he's the doctor for you.

The bottom line is that it's not easy finding medically tested anti aging products, but if you are willing to look for the information, most of it is out there.